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...sporting dispatch from Danville, Kentucky, last week brought nostalgia to the one-time followers of the Centre College Praying Colonels of Bo McMillan fame. It also calls to mind that only 30 years ago when Centre beat the Crimson, Harvard football was at the pinnacle of Big Time football. Times have changed for both colleges...
Today in the small Kentucky college town, Centre fans are no longer cheering for a team which can humble the mightiest. The Centre eleven doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to the McMillan outfit which pulled off the upset of the half century by ending a five year Harvard winning streak, beating the Crimson, 6 to 0, in the Stadium. Centre fans are rooting for a club which has won four straight this season, yes, but not victories over Tulane, Indiana, and Kentucky. The Praying Colonels have returned to the league which they left for a few brief years...
...McMillan's squad pulled the upset, and Harvard rooters of that era apparently thought the University had folded. The Monday after the one-touchdown loss a member of the football advisory committee in a front page editorial in the CRIMSON said the defeat "demonstrates conclusively the critical condition of the University eleven." Harsh words for a team with a five-one-one record. But Harvard took its defeats with no shrugs in those days...
Crimson sailors will compete with seven other entries for the McMillan Cup April 7 and 8, in Annapolis. Navy, the defending cup holder, and M.I.T. the local champion, are favorites...
...with Walter Gropius, for- member of another firm, John C. Harkness '38, Louis Millen, a 1947 graduate of school of Architecture, and Thompson, Norman C. and Robert S. McMillan. Majority of the members were graduate friends at Yale...